Introduction Vocabulary

Question 1

administrative law

Answer 1

controls relationships between citizens and government organizations

Question 2

Case law

Answer 2

Law based on precedents, that is
Judicial decisions from previous cases, rather than law, based on constitution, statues or regulations

Question 3

Civil law

Answer 3

A term for private law governing the relationships between individuals

Question 4

Common law

Answer 4

A system of law made by Englishman along time ago. It is based on precedents, long lost to time, but which became part of the English legal tradition. Since Canada’s legal system is modelled on England’s the English common law applies in Canada. (Guiding principle and largely unwritten)

Question 5

Constitutional law

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Division of power among laws that set the structure of federal, provincial, territorial government

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Contract law

Answer 6

Outlines the requirements for legally binding agreements

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Criminal law

Answer 7

The body of public law, that declares ask to be crimes and prescribes punishments for those crimes

Question 8

Family law

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Relationships between individuals living together, a spouse and parent child relationships

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Labour law

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Govern the relationship between employer and employee, for example, minimum wage pay equity working conditions, etc.

Question 10

Natural law

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Laws which, stem from a body of unchanging moral principles, regarded as the basis for all human contact idea that there exist a universal moral order. Independent of human will. (we can’t change this type of law because of this.)

Question 11

Precedent

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Something that has been done that can later served as an example a roll of how things should be done/a legal decision that serves as an example in authority in subsequent similar cases

Question 12

Private law

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Outlines the legal relationships between private citizens and citizens and organizations

Manage behaviour of a person and organizations conflict and pay damages to those wronged

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Property law

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Set a legal rules that controls to use enjoyment and rental property

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Public law

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Controls the relationships between government and the people who live in society (represents law that applies to all individuals)

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Tort law

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Deals with wrongs, other than a breach of contract, that one person commits against another person

Question 16

Crown attorney

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The lawyer prosecuting on behalf of the crown, and society and agent of the Attorney General (we do not have district attorneys in Canada so please use the term crown attorney) (criminal law)

Question 17

Defendant

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Criminal law -
The person being charged with an offence

Civil law - the party being sued

Question 18

Habeas corpus

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A document that requires a person to be brought to court to determine if you’re she is being legally to change the right to this document as protection against unlawful detention

Question 19

Plaintiff

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Civil law - the party suing

The term plaintive only applies to civil law in Canadian criminal law. The plaintiff is technically King Charles, the third Canada’s head of state in whose name criminal cases are prosecuted - the Crown attorney does the actual prosecuting all the half of the head of state

Question 20

Primary sources of law

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Direct sources of law, such as statues, cultural rules, and widely excepted social practises

Question 21

Restitution

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I deserve a penalty or punishment for wrong or crime vengeance, a sentencing objective

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Rule of law

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The fundamental principle that society is governed by law that applies equally to all persons, and that neither an individual no the government is above the law

Question 23

Secondary sources of law

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Sources that help us understand what lol means such as textbooks legal journal/essays all about interpreting primary sources of law mean

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Positive law

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Law, which is created by human beings to suit the purposes, in some respects the opposite of natural law